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by coldbrewed 3mo ago
Addiction is an extremely complex public health crisis. Letting people starve on the street is bad, giving people benefits will result in some abuse, and real change would come from more comprehensive treatment plans but we're not read
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by coldbrewed 3mo ago
The concern is that attestation turns into another mechanism to monitor and control people; see how age verification turns into surveillance.
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by coldbrewed 3mo ago
Abusive crawlers use residential proxies to distribute crawl traffic between thousands of IPs, so that one agent that's making five requests blends in with the massive crawl. There is signal but there are ML inference engineers tuning
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by coldbrewed 3mo ago
In 2011 Portlandia joked that Portland is where young people went to retire. Now Portland is where anyone that doesn't own a house will never retire.
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by coldbrewed 3mo ago
Making people actually read content doesn't strike me as cruel. Tedious, sure, but not cruel. What is cruel is seeing all of our collective individuality and artistic expression jammed into an LLM, sold back to us by the token, and for
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by coldbrewed 3mo ago
CDN security SWE here. I have functionally zero interest in what individual people do in terms of automation. I automated my gym's class signup forum during COVID so I get the validity of the use case. You want to work around the mitig
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by coldbrewed 3mo ago
The highway to hell is paved with selfishness and avarice and we are clearly on it; if we keep doing this "tragedy of the commons" bit and don't prioritize the well being of the species we are going to destroy what remains of
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by coldbrewed 3mo ago
We need more judges and prosecutors that are hungry to catch corruption and are willing to go after white collar crime.
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by coldbrewed 3mo ago
Why not build skills and an MCP for markdown or obsidian? I'm using both at present and it's fine, bit would like to understand the differentiating factor here.
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by coldbrewed 4mo ago
RIP. I respect the author for the effort but source CAD kernels are a tough nut to crack; the existing solvers are pretty old at this point and there's a floor on the effort to get a kernel that's roughly on par with opencascade w
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by coldbrewed 4mo ago
HN comment guidelines: > Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. > Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
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by coldbrewed 5mo ago
Remote device control allows for running and monitoring prints from another networks with zero effort, but more importantly local device control can't be monetized. It's just about the money.
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by coldbrewed 6mo ago
Wait a minute, wasn't this effectively the business model of dotcloud before they became Docker Inc?
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by coldbrewed 8mo ago
https://www.kuow.org/stories/privacy-advocates-flag-a-potent...
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by coldbrewed 1y ago
Yep, the fact that the safety merely blocks the trigger and doesn't block the striker in case of accidental sear disengagement is horrifying.
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by coldbrewed 1y ago
Browsers need to start displaying a count of em-dashes and en-dashes in articles so that we know what to expect from AI generated self-aggrandizing articles like this.
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by coldbrewed 1y ago
So, it's istio but with AI generated blog posts?
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by coldbrewed 1y ago
Coldbrew's law states that if an article is written in praise of AI and abstrusely written, then it's probably AI slop, written by someone who holds their own ideas in high enough regard to publish but holds their audience in low
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by coldbrewed 2y ago
> In fact in a fully optimized system, once consumers have all of their wants and needs met, they will have zero dollars left over. What are your parameters for optimization here? If the point is to maximize extracted revenue then this i
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by coldbrewed 2y ago
Open source is a gift within a gift economy. The software may be freely used but the labor needs to come from somewhere, and donations of either direct labor or compensation help ensure that the overall gift economy can continue to function
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by coldbrewed 2y ago
My guess is that the presence of lithium in the groundwater is in trace amounts if at all, while the dosing of lithium is in the domain of ~300mg. A casual search for the quantity of lithium in brine from a mine shows a max of 1400ppm for a
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by coldbrewed 2y ago
Software engineer, or IFSAC Apparatus Operator engineer? On the west coast we absolutely refer to our pumping apparatuses as fire engines; when Engine 813 is dispatched from our station to a call we bring the whole vehicle and not just the
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by coldbrewed 2y ago
ICE vehicle fires take about 1000 gallons, and the average fire hydrant puts out about 500-1000 gallons per minute. Structural fire engines carry about 1000 gallons and the heavy duty nozzles and ground monitors/deck guns put out 500-1
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by coldbrewed 2y ago
The heat from vehicles isn't distributed spatially across rooftops/walls/trees where the heat might be dispersed; instead the heat from vehicles is concentrated and radiated adjacent to sidewalks (impacting pedestrians) and a
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by coldbrewed 2y ago
https://archive.ph/K5ovX
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by coldbrewed 2y ago
There's a difference between selling a multi-ton vehicle that has crumple zones and curved lines and selling a multi-ton vehicle that is designed to tenderize pedestrian rib cages. This comment also applies to today's pickups and
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by coldbrewed 3y ago
Correct, the camera is built for an all sky survey. With the wide field of view it should be able to image the full night sky once every two or three days.
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by coldbrewed 3y ago
There's still a cap on growth. Apple is running into market saturation for phones and eventually will land in a situation where the only way it can sell more phones is by selling the same consumers newer/more expensive phones. To
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by coldbrewed 3y ago
When it comes to the personal and intangibles, then grow all you want; read the books, develop the skills, and so on. But when it comes to consumption of resources and economic growth then cancer is the right word as unbounded growth fundam
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by coldbrewed 3y ago
That may require a tree-sitter implementation for erb templated html; it may exist but if so it's less of a mainstream thing. Some quick googling turns up https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-embedded-templat

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